wild west

1. 1.

   the western United States during its frontier period

   BroaderWest

Questions about wild west

What does wild west mean?

wild west means "the western United States during its frontier period".

Is wild west a common word?

wild west is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.